Combined collar and button box.



0. A. 'LEHMAN.

COMBINED COLLAR AND BUTTON BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13, 1907.

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COMBINED COLLAR AND BUTTON BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Application filed June 13, 1907. Serial No. 378,714.

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, Orro A. LEHMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hoboken, in thc county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invcn ted a new and use ful Combined Collar and Button Box, of which the following is a specification.

My invention comprises a combined collar and button box having separate compart ments for the collars and the buttons, the object being to arrange means for providin a convenient receptacle for the buttons which is so located within the collar box as not to interfere with the collars therein.

A practical embodiment of the invention is re resented in the accompanying drawings in w ich,

Figure 1 represents the combined collar and button box in side elevation in its closed position, Fig. 2 is a. similar view with the box 111 its open position, Fig. I; is a horizontal section taken in the plane of the line AA of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and Fig. 4 is a vertical central section taken in the plane of the line BB of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, the position of the box when open being shown in dotted lines.

The collar box is herein shown'as being provided with flexible sides 1 and a snbstantially' still bottom 2. The collar box is of circular form so as to retain the collars in their normal position therein. The top of the box is opened and closed by a )uckcr string or cord 3 laced through the flexible 1 side walls 1 of the collar box near the top 1 edges of the same. A button box is located Within the collar box and is fixed in a central position on the substantially stiff bottom 2 of the collar box. The body portion of the button box is denoted by l and its cover by Ellis-button box is arranged centrally so as not to interfere with the collars within the collar box and is also preferably made circular so as not to interfcro with the natural position of the collars Within the collar box. It will thus be seen that a space within the collar box which cannot be used for collars is utilized by providing a box for the buttons, the said box also serving to help retain the collars in their natural position Within the collar box around the said button box.

\Vhat I claim is:

As an article of manufacture, a collar box having a substantially still bottom of circular form and flexible sides arranged tobe s read apart and drawn together to open and clbse the box, and a button box comprising a body portion fixed in a central position on said circular bottom within-the collar box and a cover for opening'mnl closing the button box, said button box serving, in conjunc tion with the sides ol the collar box to retain the collars against displacement.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I. have signed my name in presence of two Witnesses, this eleventh day of June 1907.

OTTO A. LEHUAN. Witnesses F. GEORGE BARRY, HENRY THIEME. 

